There is a famous meme—Woman Laughing Alone with Salad. It takes its title, and its image, from the countless stock photos depicting exactly that: a woman enjoying her healthy lunch with manic glee. In women laughing salad, Pablo Barba’s latest series of oil paintings, the artist continues to make social commentary out of memes and stock situations, through both subtle exaggeration and art historical influences. Like the output of an AI algorithm fed prompt after prompt, shifting between repetition and minor variation on a theme, images begin to reiterate and turn in on themselves. Three women with salads. Three women one salad. One woman standing one woman sitting smiling salad. Woman sitting smiling salad barefoot. Woman laughing salad.
On view through August 31st at A Hug From The Art World, 87 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, NY 11937
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